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Lebanese

UK /lɛ.bəˈniːz/adjective, noun

Lebanese is spelled L-E-B-A-N-E-S-E: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Lebanese means “Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon or the Lebanese people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Lebanese?

Letters8: L-E-B-A-N-E-S-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.2 times per million words; the 10,843rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is Lebanese?

Lebanese appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Lebanese?

  • UK /lɛ.bəˈniːz/

Lebanese has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Lebanese.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with Lebanese?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Lebanese from its last stressed vowel (/iz/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does Lebanese mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon or the Lebanese people.

noun

  1. 1

    A person from Lebanon or of Lebanese descent.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Lebanese in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlibanais (of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon, its people…), Libanais, Libanaise (person from Lebanon)
Germanlibanesisch (of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon, its people…), Libanese, Libanesin (person from Lebanon)
Portugueselibanês (of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon, its people…)
Spanishlibanés (of, from, or pertaining to Lebanon, its people…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Lebanese come from?

From Lebanon + -ese.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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